Another Example of Lawlessness.
Type of event: Lynchings
Location: Minnesota; United States
Citation:
National Advocate, June 19, 1920, page 1.
“Another Example of Lawlessness”
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ANOTHER EXAMPLE
OF
LAWLESSNESS
The Duluth Mob Violence which broke lose a few nights ago. The National
Advocate does not wish to be misunderstood. Lynch law is the purest anarchy. It
is the substitution of mob violence for legal processes. It is absolutely
inexcusable under any circumstances and those who take part in it ought to be
punished as severely as possible. In the Duluth episode it was especially wanton
because the mob was not sure and could not be sure that it was executing the
guilty men. The police authorities claim they were powerless. Nonsense. The mob,
a few months ago tried to do the same thing in Kentucky, and the good citizens
there stopped it by shooting down five. Governor Coolidge of Boston, Mass. who
will be the next Vice-President of the United States stopped this mob and this
gang in his state and yet Duluth with all its intelligent citizens would allow a
disgraceful affair of this kind to happen in its city.
At the Chicago
Republican Covention the colored delegates from all parts of the country labored
night and day with a Republican convention to put in their plank denouncing the
mob rule, lynching and they absolutely refused. Who is responsible for these
outrages, lynching and mob violence in America. The United States Senate and
Representatives and the President of the United States will have to give account
at the bar of God, for their stewardship while representing the people of the
great United States all over the country in Washington, D. C.
During the
Candidate is speaking tour through the state of Minnesota, the only one who
mentioned and denounced the graceful affair at Duluth, was the Honorable Jacob
Preus, who is a candidate for Governor on the Republican ticket and he denounced
this graceful affair in the State of Minnesota.